Olivier Messiaen – “Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum”

by richibi

just in time for Easter here is something from Olivier Messiaen, whom I consider to be, after Shostakovich, the most important composer of the Twentieth Century, and may one day, with more distance, prove to be, of the two,

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Messiaen, a devout Catholic, wrote specifically to the glory of the Catholic God, an interesting return to the music of the Baroque period, and earlier, when the Church sponsored essentially all the arts